Bio from The Festival Voice

Artist Biography by Daniel Karasek
Fred Again.., aka Fred Gibson, is a London-based producer responsible for numerous chart-tipping pop and rap songs. He was born in 1994 as British Royalty and sang in an a cappella group at his future mentor Brian Eno’s studio in London. Fred impressed Brian with his Logic skills, and Brian took Fred under his wing. By 2014, Fred started working with Brian on the trilogy of albums for Underworld’s Karl Hyde. In the following few years, Fred would co-produce singles for Ellie Goulding, Charli XCX, and Little Mix. In 2018, he became a sought after producer, working with Clean Bandit, Shawn Mendes, and Rita Ora. The next year Fred released his debut solo single “Kyle (I Found You)” which was the first track he created using samples he sourced from his surroundings, in this case from a social media clip of his friend singing. Later that year he worked with Ed Sheeran on No. 6 Collaborations in where Fred co-produced all but two of the tracks. In 2020, Fred finally won Producer of the Year at the Brit Awards after many near hits for awards previously. In the next four years, Fred created a brand for himself where most of his solo music was crafted by sampling sounds from around his life. He has done pop-up shows to massive crowds with Skrillex and Four Tet by his side. Who knows what Bonnaroo will hold?

 
Genre: DJ, EDM, House, Garage, Trance, Indie Pop
Scheduled: Sunday
Songs & Sets:
Four Tet, Fred Again.. & Skrillex live from Times Square for @TheLotRadio
Fred again.. Boiler Room: London
Fred again..: Tiny Desk Concert
Fred again.. - Actual Life 3 Piano Live (22 December 2022)
Have you seen Fred Again.. before? Please share your experience and favorite songs.
 

Days Until Bonnaroo: 16

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“Questioning elicited the information that he feels almost as if there is a veil between him and other people through which they cannot reach him, but he prefers this veil to remain intact.”
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Sometimes he looks around him, horrified by the weight of it all, the career of paper. He sits in the data-spew of hundreds of lives. There’s no end in sight. When he needs something, a report or transcript, anything, any level of difficulty, he simply has to ask. The Curator is quick to respond, firm in his insistence on forwarding precisely the right document in an area of research marked by ambiguity and error, by political bias, systematic fantasy. But not just the right document, not just an obscure footnote from an open source. The Curator sends him material not seen by anyone outside the headquarters complex at Langley, material that includes the results of internal investigations, confidential files from the Agency’s own Office of Security.
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Knowledge was a danger, ignorance a cherished asset. In many cases the DCI, the Director of Central Intelligence, was not to know important things. The less he knew, the more decisively he could function. It would impair his ability to tell the truth at an inquiry or a hearing, or in an Oval Office chat with the President, if he knew what they were doing in Leader 4, or even what they were talking about, or muttering in their sleep. The Joint Chiefs were not to know. The operational horrors were not for their ears. Details were a form of contamination. The Secretaries were to be insulated from knowing. They were happier not knowing, or knowing too late. The Deputy Secretaries were interested in drifts and tendencies. They expected to be misled. They counted on it. The Attorney General wasn’t to know the queasy details. Just get results. Each level of the committee was designed to protect a higher level. There were complexities of speech. A man needed special experience and insight to work true meanings out of certain murky remarks. There were pauses and blank looks. Brilliant riddles floated up and down the echelons, to be pondered, solved, ignored.
The members of the committee would allow only generalities to carry upward. It was the President, of course, who was the final object of their protective instincts. … The White House was to be the summit of unknowing. It was as if an unsullied leader redeemed some ancient truth which the others were forced to admire only in the abstract, owing to their mission in the convoluted world.
But there were even deeper shadows, strange and grave silences surrounding plans to invade the island. The President knew about this, of course—knew the broad contours, had a sense of the promised outcome. But the system still operated as an insulating muse. Let him see the softer tones. Shield him from responsibility. Secrets build their own networks, Win believed. The system would perpetuate itself in all its curious and obsessive webbings, its equivocations and patient riddles and levels of delusional thought …
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“The invasion failed because high officials didn’t examine the basic assumptions. They got caught up in a spirit of compelling action. They were eager to accept other men’s perceptions. There was safety in this. The plan was never clear. No one was ever responsible. Some of them knew a disaster was in the works. They let it ride. They put themselves out of reach. They wanted it over and done.”
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“Some things we wait for all our lives without knowing it. Then it happens and we recognize at once who we are and how we are meant to proceed. This is the idea I’ve always wanted. I believe you’ll sense it is right. It’s the high risk we need. We need an electrifying event. You’ve been waiting for this every bit as much as I have. I believe that or I wouldn’t have asked you to come here. We want to set up an attempt on the life of the President. We plan every step, design every incident leading up to the event. We put together a team, leave a dim trail. The evidence is ambiguous. But it points to the Cuban Intelligence Directorate. Inherent in the plan is a second set of clues, even more unclear, more intriguing. These point to the Agency’s attempts to assassinate Castro. I am designing a plan that includes elements of both the American provocation and the Cuban reply. We do the whole thing with paper. Passports, drivers’ licenses, address books. Our team of shooters disappears but the police find a trail. Mail-order forms, change-of-address cards, photographs. We script a person or persons out of ordinary pocket litter. Shots ring out, the country is shocked, aroused. The paper trail leads to paid agents who have disappeared in Venezuela, in Mexico. I am convinced this is what we have to do to get Cuba back. This plan has levels and variations I’ve only begun to explore but it is already, essentially, right. I feel its rightness. I know what scientists mean when they talk about elegant solutions. This plan speaks to something deep inside me. It has a powerful logic. I’ve felt it unfolding for weeks, like a dream whose meaning slowly becomes apparent. This is the condition we’ve always wanted to reach. It’s the life-insight, the life-secret, and we have to extend it, guard it carefully, right up to the time we have shooters stationed on a rooftop or railroad bridge.”
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Historic names, pen names, names of war, party names, revolutionary names. These were men who lived in isolation for long periods, lived close to death through long winters in exile or prison, feeling history in the room, waiting for the moment when it would surge through the walls, taking them with it. History was a force to these men, a presence in the room. They felt it and waited.
The books were struggles. He had to fight to make some elementary sense of what he read. But the books had come out of struggle. They had been struggles to write, struggles to live. It seemed fitting to Lee that the texts were often masses of dense theory, unyielding. The tougher the books, the more firmly he fixed a distance between himself and others.
He found enough that he could understand. He could see the capitalists, he could see the masses. They were right here, all around him, every day.
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Pocket litter. Win Everett was at work devising a general shape, a life. He would script a gunman out of ordinary dog-eared paper, the contents of a wallet. … They wanted a name, a face, a bodily frame they might use to extend their fiction into the world. Everett had decided he wanted one figure to be slightly more visible than the others, a man the investigation might center on, someone who would be trailed and possibly apprehended. Three or four shooters would vanish completely, leaving scant traces of their affiliation. … Then one other figure, one slightly clearer image, perhaps abandoned in his sniper’s perch to find his own way out, to be trailed, found, possibly killed by the Secret Service, FBI or local police. Whatever protocol demands. This kind of man, a marksman, near anonymous, with minimal known history, the kind of man who surfaces in murky places, disappears, is arrested for some violent act, is released to drift again, to surface, to disappear. Mackey would find this man for Everett. They needed fingerprints, a handwriting sample, a photograph. Mackey would find the other shooters as well. We don’t hit the President. We miss him. We want a spectacular miss.
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It was all so curiously funny. It was rich, that’s what it was. Everyone was a spook or dupe or asset, a double, courier, cutout or defector, or was related to one. We were all linked in a vast and rhythmic coincidence, a daisy chain of rumor, suspicion and secret wish.
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Somewhere in his room of theories, in some notebook or folder, Nicholas Branch has a roster of the dead. A printout of the names of witnesses, informers, investigators, people linked to Lee H. Oswald, people linked to Jack Ruby, all conveniently and suggestively dead. In 1979 a House select committee determined there was nothing statistically abnormal about the death rate among those who were connected in some way to the events of November 22. Branch accepts this as an actuarial fact. He is writing a history, not a study of the ways in which people succumb to paranoia. There is endless suggestiveness. Branch concedes this. There is the language of the manner of death. Shot in back of head. Died of cut throat. Shot in police station. Shot in motel. Shot by husband after one month marriage. Found hanging by toreador pants in jail cell. Killed by karate chop. It is the neon epic of Saturday night. And Branch wants to believe that’s all it is. There is enough mystery in the facts as we know them, enough of conspiracy, coincidence, loose ends, dead ends, multiple interpretations. There is no need, he thinks, to invent the grand and masterful scheme, the plot that reaches flawlessly in a dozen directions.
Still, the cases do resonate, don’t they? Mostly anonymous dead. Exotic dancers, taxi drivers, cigarette girls, lawyers of the shopworn sort with dandruff on their lapels. But through the years the violence has reached others as well, and with each new series of misadventures Branch sees again how the assassination sheds a powerful and lasting light, exposing patterns and links, revealing this man to have known that one, this death to have occurred in curious juxtaposition to that.
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“U-2 planes. The planes that spotted the missiles the Soviets were putting into Cuba. We used to call the photos pornography. The photo interpreters would gather to interpret. ‘Let’s see what kind of pornography we pulled in today.’ Kennedy looked at the pictures in his bedroom as a matter of fact. … Spy planes, drone aircraft, satellites with cameras that can see from three hundred miles what you can see from a hundred feet. They see and they hear. Like ancient monks, you know, who recorded knowledge, wrote it painstakingly down. These systems collect and process. All the secret knowledge of the world. … I’ll tell you what it means, these orbiting sensors that can hear us in our beds. It means the end of loyalty. The more complex the systems, the less conviction in people. Conviction will be drained out of us. Devices will drain us, make us vague and pliant.”
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He would put someone together, build an identity, a skein of persuasion and habit, ever so subtle. He wanted a man with believable quirks. He would create a shadowed room, the gunman’s room, which investigators would eventually find, exposing each fact to relentless scrutiny, following each friend, relative, casual acquaintance into his own roomful of shadows. We lead more interesting lives than we think. We are characters in plots, without the compression and numinous sheen. Our lives, examined carefully in all their affinities and links, abound with suggestive meaning, with themes and involute turnings we have not allowed ourselves to see completely. He would show the secret symmetries in a nondescript life.
An address book with ambiguous leads. Photographs expertly altered (or crudely altered). Letters, travel documents, counterfeit signatures, a history of false names. It would all require a massive decipherment, a conversion to plain text. He envisioned teams of linguists, photo analysts, fingerprint experts, handwriting experts, experts in hairs and fibers, smudges and blurs. Investigators building up chronologies. He would give them the makings of deep chronos, lead them to basement rooms in windy industrial slums, to lost towns in the Tropics.
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Life is hostile, he believed. The struggle is to merge your life with the greater tide of history.
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Maybe what has to happen is that the individual must allow himself to be swept along, must find himself in the stream of no-choice, the single direction. This is what makes things inevitable. You use the restrictions and penalties they invent to make yourself stronger. History means to merge. The purpose of history is to climb out of your own skin. He knew what Trotsky had written, that revolution leads us out of the dark night of the isolated self. We live forever in history, outside ego and id.
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Two weeks later he followed directions to a house in the Sanya district of Tokyo. He made his way through a ragpickers’ village built with material scavenged from other parts of the city. Old women jogged through the alleys carrying empty bottles, broken chair legs, pieces of indefinable junk. Houses were shoulder-high, made of old packing crates and strips of sheet metal, the walls stuffed with cardboard and rags. There were lines of people selling blood at mobile units, people who seemed hollow-bodied, so small, in such collapse. It would never bottom out. No matter how far down you went into the world, there were distances still to go, worse things to see and experience. He made it a point not to hurry through the area. He wanted to see what was here.
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It produced a sensation of the eeriest panic, gave him a glimpse of the fiction he’d been devising, a fiction living prematurely in the world.
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Nicholas Branch has unpublished state documents, polygraph reports, Dictabelt recordings from the police radio net on November 22. He has photo enhancements, floor plans, home movies, biographies, bibliographies, letters, rumors, mirages, dreams. This is the room of dreams, the room where it has taken him all these years to learn that his subject is not politics or violent crime but men in small rooms.
Is he one of them now? Frustrated, stuck, self-watching, looking for a means of connection, a way to break out. After Oswald, men in America are no longer required to lead lives of quiet desperation. You apply for a credit card, buy a handgun, travel through cities, suburbs and shopping malls, anonymous, anonymous, looking for a chance to take a shot at the first puffy empty famous face, just to let people know there is someone out there who reads the papers.
Branch is stuck all right. He has abandoned his life to understanding that moment in Dallas, the seven seconds that broke the back of the American century. He has his forensic pathology rundown, his neutron activation analysis. There is also the Warren Report, of course, with its twenty-six accompanying volumes of testimony and exhibits, its millions of words. Branch thinks this is the megaton novel James Joyce would have written if he’d moved to Iowa City and lived to be a hundred.
Everything is here. Baptismal records, report cards, postcards, divorce petitions, canceled checks, daily timesheets, tax returns, property lists, postoperative x-rays, photos of knotted string, thousands of pages of testimony, of voices droning in hearing rooms in old courthouse buildings, an incredible haul of human utterance. It lies so flat on the page, hangs so still in the lazy air, lost to syntax and other arrangement, that it resembles a kind of mind-spatter, a poetry of lives muddied and dripping in language.
Branch doesn’t know how to approach this kind of data. … It is vital to his sense of responsible obsession that everything in his room warrants careful study. Everything belongs, everything adheres, the mutter of obscure witnesses, the photos of illegible documents and odd sad personal debris, things gathered up at a dying—old shoes, pajama tops, letters from Russia. It is all one thing, a ruined city of trivia where people feel real pain. This is the Joycean Book of America, remember—the novel in which nothing is left out.
Branch has long since forgiven the Warren Report for its failures. It is too valuable a document of human heartbreak and muddle to be scorned or dismissed. The twenty-six volumes haunt him. Men and women surface in FBI memos, are tracked for several pages, then disappear—waitresses, prostitutes, mind readers, motel managers, owners of rifle ranges. Their stories hang in time, spare, perfect in their way, unfinished.
Photographs. Many are overexposed, light-blasted, with a faded quality beyond their age, suggesting things barely glimpsed despite the simple nature of the objects and the spare captions. ... But Branch feels there is a loneliness, a strange desolation trapped here. Why do these photographs have a power to disturb him, make him sad? Flat, pale, washed in time, suspended outside the particularized gist of this or that era, arguing nothing, clarifying nothing, lonely. Can a photograph be lonely?
This sadness has him fixed to his chair, staring. He feels the souls of empty places, finds himself returning again and again to the pictures of the second-floor lunchroom in the Texas School Book Depository. Rooms, garages, streets were emptied out for the making of official pictures. Empty forever now, stuck in some picture limbo. He feels the souls of those who were there and left. He feels sadness in objects, in warehouse cartons and blood-soaked clothes. He breathes in loneliness. He feels the dead in his room.
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It was his goodbye to Russia. It signified the official end of a major era in his life. It validated the experience, as the writing of any history brings a persuasion and form to events.
Even as he printed the words, he imagined people reading them, people moved by his loneliness and disappointment, even by his wretched spelling, the childish mess of composition. Let them see the struggle and humiliation, the effort he had to exert to write a simple sentence. The pages were crowded, smudged, urgent, a true picture of his state of mind, of his rage and frustration, knowing a thing but not able to record it properly.
Always the pain, the chaos of composition. He could not find order in the field of little symbols. They were in the hazy distance. He could not clearly see the picture that is called a word. A word is also a picture of a word. He saw spaces, incomplete features, and tried to guess at the rest.
He made wild tries at phonetic spelling. But the language tricked him with its inconsistencies. He watched sentences deteriorate, powerless to make them right. The nature of things was to be elusive. Things slipped through his perceptions. He could not get a grip on the runaway world.
Limits everywhere. In every direction he came up against his own incompleteness. Cramped, fumbling, deficient. He knew things. It wasn’t that he didn’t know.
Even in the rush of filling these pages, he was careful to leave out certain things that could be used in legal argument against his return to the U.S. Yes, the diary was self-serving to a degree but still the basic truth, he believed. The panic was real, the voice of disappointment and loss.
He knew there were discrepancies, messed-up dates. No one could expect him to get the dates right after all this time, no one cared about the dates, no one is reading this for names and dates and spellings.
Let them see the struggle.
He believed religiously that his life would turn in such a way that people would one day study the Historic Diary for clues to the heart and mind of the man who wrote it.
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Plots carry their own logic. There is a tendency of plots to move toward death. He believed that the idea of death is woven into the nature of every plot. A narrative plot no less than a conspiracy of armed men. The tighter the plot of a story, the more likely it will come to death. A plot in fiction, he believed, is the way we localize the force of the death outside the book, play it off, contain it. The ancients staged mock battles to parallel the tempests in nature and reduce their fear of gods who warred across the sky. He worried about the deathward logic of his plot. He’d already made it clear that he wanted the shooters to hit a Secret Service man, wound him superficially. But it wasn’t a misdirected round, an accidental killing, that made him afraid. There was something more insidious. He had a foreboding that the plot would move to a limit, develop a logical end.
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He thought the only end to isolation was to reach the point where he was no longer separated from the true struggles that went on around him. The name we give this point is history.
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“It’s the job of an intelligence service to resolve a nation’s obsessions. Cuba is a fixed idea. It is prickly in a way Russia is not. More unresolved. More damaging to the psyche. And this is our job, to remove the psychic threat, to learn so much about Castro, decipher his intentions, undermine his institutions to such a degree that he loses the power to shape the way we think, to shape the way we sleep at night.”
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It was remarkable how often he talked to her about these things. The Agency was the one subject in his life that could never be exhausted. Central Intelligence. Beryl saw it as the best organized church in the Christian world, a mission to collect and store everything that everyone has ever said and then reduce it to a microdot and call it God. She needed to live in small dusty rooms, layered safely in, out of the reach of dizzying things, of heat and light and strange spaces, and Larry needed the great sheltering nave of the Agency. He believed that nothing can be finally known that involves human motive and need. There is always another level, another secret, a way in which the heart breeds a deception so mysterious and complex it can only be taken for a deeper kind of truth.
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He’d stopped commenting on this oddness of hers. She said the news clippings she sent to friends were a perfectly reasonable way to correspond. There were a thousand things to clip and they all said something about the way she felt. He watched her read and cut. She wore half-glasses and worked the scissors grimly. She believed these were personal forms of expression. She believed no message she could send a friend was more intimate and telling than a story in the paper … Because these are the things that tell us how we live.
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In the Old Senate Caucus Room they asked him to name the members of the Real Control Apparatus. This is like naming particles in the air, naming molecules or cells. The Apparatus is precisely what we can’t see or name. We can’t measure it, gentlemen, or take its photograph. It is the mystery we can’t get hold of, the plot we can’t uncover. This doesn’t mean there are no plotters. They are elected officials of our government, Cabinet members, philanthropists, men who know each other by secret signs, who work in the shadows to control our lives.
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On his fourth day with Castro he shot a government scout, aiming through a telescopic sight. It was uncanny. You press a button and a man drops dead a hundred meters away. It seemed hollow and remote, falsifying everything. It was a trick of the lenses. The man is an accurate picture. Then he is upside down. Then he is right side up. You shoot at a series of images conveyed to you through a metal tube. The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you’ve killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it’s ordinary murder.
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The Curator sends the results of ballistics tests carried out on human skulls and goat carcasses, on blocks of gelatin mixed with horsemeat. There are photographs of skulls with the right cranial portion blown away. There are bullet-shattered goat heads in close-up. Branch studies a picture of a gelatin-tissue model “dressed” like the President. It is pure modernist sculpture, a block of gelatin layered in suit and shirt material with a strip of undershirt showing, bullet-smoked. There are documents concerning exit velocities. There is a picture of a human skull filled with gelatin and covered with goatskin to simulate a scalp.
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He sends an actual warped bullet that has been fired for test purposes through the wrist of a seated cadaver. We are on another level here, Branch thinks. Beyond documents now. They want me to touch and smell.
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The Oswald shadings, the multiple images, the split perceptions—eye color, weapons caliber—these seem a foreboding of what is to come. The endless fact-rubble of the investigations. How many shots, how many gunmen, how many directions? Powerful events breed their own network of inconsistencies. The simple facts elude authentication. How many wounds on the President’s body? What is the size and shape of the wounds? … [Branch] concedes everything. He questions everything, including the basic suppositions we make about our world of light and shadow, solid objects and ordinary sounds, and our ability to measure such things, to determine weight, mass and direction, to see things as they are, recall them clearly, be able to say what happened.
He takes refuge in his notes. The notes are becoming an end in themselves. Branch has decided it is premature to make a serious effort to turn these notes into coherent history. Maybe it will always be premature. Because the data keeps coming. Because new lives enter the record all the time. The past is changing as he writes.
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“Signs that you exist. Evidence that Lee Oswald matches the cardboard cutout they’ve been shaping all along. You’re a quirk of history. You’re a coincidence. They devise a plan, you fit it perfectly. They lose you, here you are. There’s a pattern in things. Something in us has an effect on independent events. We make things happen. The conscious mind gives one side only. We’re deeper than that. We extend into time. Some of us can almost predict the time and place and nature of our own death. We know it on some deeper plane.”
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“Think of two parallel lines,” he said. “One is the life of Lee H. Oswald. One is the conspiracy to kill the President. What bridges the space between them? What makes a connection inevitable? There is a third line. It comes out of dreams, visions, intuitions, prayers, out of the deepest levels of the self. It’s not generated by cause and effect like the other two lines. It’s a line that cuts across causality, cuts across time. It has no history that we can recognize or understand. But it forces a connection. It puts a man on the path of his destiny.”
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The Agency forgives. There wasn’t a man in the upper ranks of the four directorates who didn’t understand the perils of clandestine work. They would be pleased by his willingness to cooperate. What’s more, they would admire the complexity of his plan, incomplete as it was. It had art and memory. It had a sense of responsibility, of moral force. And it was a picture in the world of their own guilty wishes. He was never more surely an Agency man than in the first breathless days of dreaming up this plot.
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To Nicholas Branch, more frequently of late, “Lee H. Oswald” seems a technical diagram, part of some exercise in the secret manipulation of history.
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Street by street the crowd began to understand why it was here. The message jumped the open space from one press of bodies to the next. A contagion had brought them here, some mystery of common impulse, hundreds of thousands come from so many histories and systems of being, come from some experience of the night before, a convergence of dreams, to stand together shouting as the Lincoln passed. … They were here to surround the brittle body of one man and claim his smile, receive some token of the bounty of his soul.
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The media crowds collected and rocked in the corridors. They were waiting for the prisoner to come down to the interrogation room here on the third floor of the Police and Courts Building. TV cameras sat on dollies and there were cables slung over windowsills, trailing through the offices of deputy chiefs. Nobody checked credentials. Reporters took over the phones and pushed into toilets after police officials. Total unknowns walked the halls, defendants from other parts of the building, witnesses to other crimes, tourists, muttering men, drunks in torn shirts. It was a roughhouse, a confoundment. Every rumor flew. Disk jockeys arrived to fill in, blinking, flinching, wary. A reporter wrote notes on a pad he balanced on the back of the chief of police.
Hours going by. Blank faces arrayed against corridor walls. Men crouched near the elevators waiting. They sensed the incompleteness out there, gaps, spaces, vacant seats, lobbies emptied out, disconnections, dark cities, stopped lives. People were lonely for news. Only news could make them whole again, restore sensation. Three hundred reporters in a compact space, all pushing to extract a word. A word is a magic wish. A word from anyone. With a word they could begin to grid the world, make an instant surface that people can see and touch together.
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Whenever they took him down, he heard his name on the radios and TVs. Lee Harvey Oswald. It sounded extremely strange. He didn’t recognize himself in the full intonation of the name. The only time he used his middle name was to write it on a form that had a space for that purpose. No one called him by that name. Now it was everywhere. He heard it coming from the walls. Reporters called it out. Lee Harvey Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald. It sounded odd and dumb and made up. They were talking about somebody else.
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They took him back to the cell. He stripped to his underwear and sat on the bunk, thinking, feeling the noise of the assembly room still resonating in his body. A cell is the basic state, the crude truth of the world.
He could play it either way, depending on what they could prove or couldn’t prove. He wasn’t on the sixth floor at all. He was in the lunchroom eating lunch. The victim of a total frame. They’d been rigging the thing for years, watching him, using him, creating a chain of evidence with the innocent facts of his life. Or he could say he was only partly guilty, set up to take the blame for the real conspirators. Okay, he fired some shots from the window. But he didn’t kill anyone. He never meant to fire a fatal shot. It was never his intention to cause an actual fatality. He was only trying to make a political point. Other people were responsible for the actual killing. They fixed it so he would seem the lone gunman. They superimposed his head on someone else’s body. Forged his name on documents. Made him a dupe of history. He would name every name if he had to.
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Lee Harvey Oswald was awake in his cell. It was beginning to occur to him that he’d found his life’s work. After the crime comes the reconstruction. He will have motives to analyze, the whole rich question of truth and guilt. Time to reflect, time to turn this thing in his mind. Here is a crime that clearly yields material for deep interpretation. He will be able to bend the light of that heightened moment, shadows fixed on the lawn, the limousine shimmering and still. Time to grow in self-knowledge, to explore the meaning of what he’s done. He will vary the act a hundred ways, speed it up and slow it down, shift emphasis, find shadings, see his whole life change.
This was the true beginning.
They will, give him writing paper and books. He will fill his cell with books about the case. He will have time to educate himself in criminal law, ballistics, acoustics, photography. Whatever pertains to the case he will examine and consume. People will come to see him, the lawyers first, then psychologists, historians, biographers. His life had a single clear subject now, called Lee Harvey Oswald.
He and Kennedy were partners. The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live.
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If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It’s the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act.
But maybe not. Nicholas Branch thinks he knows better. He has learned enough about the days and months preceding November 22, and enough about the twenty-second itself, to reach a determination that the conspiracy against the President was a rambling affair that succeeded in the short term due mainly to chance. Deft men and fools, ambivalence and fixed will and what the weather was like.
The stuff keeps coming. The Curator sends FBI surveillance logs. He sends a thirty-five-hour film chronology of unedited network footage shot during the weekend of November 22. He sends a computer-enhanced version of the Zapruder film, the 8mm home movie made by a dress manufacturer who stood on a concrete abutment above Elm Street as the shots were fired. Experts have scrutinized every murky nuance of the Zapruder film. It is the basic timing device of the assassination and a major emblem of uncertainty and chaos. There is the powerful moment of death, the surrounding blurs, patches and shadows.
(Branch’s analysis of the film and other evidence leads him to believe the first shot came much sooner than most theories would allow, probably at Zapruder frame 186. Governor Connally was hit two point six seconds later, at Zapruder 234. The shot that killed the President, crushingly, came four point three seconds after that. Even though he has reached firm conclusions in this area, Branch will study the computerized version of Zapruder. He is in too deep to stop now.)
The Curator sends a special FBI report that includes detailed descriptions of the dreams of eyewitnesses following the assassination of Kennedy and the murder of Oswald.
There are worrisome omissions, occasional gaps in the record. Of course Branch understands that the Agency is a closed system. He knows they will not reveal what they’ve learned to other agencies, much less the public. This is why the history he has contracted to write is a secret one, meant for CIA’s own closed collection. But why are they withholding material from him as well? There’s something they aren’t telling him. The Curator delays, lately, in filling certain requests for information, seems to ignore other requests completely. What are they holding back? How much more is there? Branch wonders if there is some limit inherent in the yielding of information gathered in secret. They can’t give it all away, even to one of their own, someone pledged to confidentiality. Before his retirement, Branch analyzed intelligence, sought patterns in random scads of data. He believed secrets were childish things. He was not generally impressed by the accomplishments of men in the clandestine service, the spy handlers, the covert-action staff. He thought they’d built a vast theology, a formal coded body of knowledge that was basically play material, secret-keeping, one of the keener pleasures and conflicts of childhood. Now he wonders if the Agency is protecting something very much like its identity—protecting its own truth, its theology of secrets.
The Curator begins to send fiction, twenty-five years of novels and plays about the assassination. He sends feature films and documentaries. He sends transcripts of panel discussions and radio debates. Branch has no choice but to study this material. There are important things he has yet to learn. There are lives he must examine. It is essential to master the data.
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He believes people are distorting his words even as he speaks them. There is a process that takes place between the saying of a word and when they pretend to hear it correctly but actually change it to mean what they want.
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He is miscast, or cast as someone else, as Oswald. They are part of the same crime now. They are in it together and forever and together.
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The camera doesn’t catch all of it. There seem to be missing frames, lost levels of information. Brief and simple as the shooting is, it is too much to take in, too mingled in jumped-up energies.
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There was something in Oswald’s face, a glance at the camera before he was shot, that put him here in the audience, among the rest of us, sleepless in our homes—a glance, a way of telling us that he knows who we are and how we feel, that he has brought our perceptions and interpretations into his sense of the crime. Something in the look, some sly intelligence, exceedingly brief but far-reaching, a connection all but bleached away by glare, tells us that he is outside the moment, watching with the rest of us.

New Graphic Design major graduates applying to full time graphic design roles:
I've given in-depth reviews to over 300 designers' portfolios from this sub over the past three years, often working directly with designers behind the scenes to make a revision plan. A few have joined me for a bi-weekly design review meeting via Zoom.
The majority of the designers who revised their portfolios were hired into their first full time design role – but the designers who actually chose to make those revisions were in the minority – the vast minority, meaning under 10%. Most who asked for feedback did nothing at all to update their portfolios after graduation.
I check up on old portfolios from designers who requested reviews – both here on the sub and sent to me personally via DM – and most remain unchanged, or have gone offline. Those designers likely gave up on finding full time roles in the industry, or are still hoping to get hired and are applying with problematic portfolios, often years later. Most of them will never work as graphic designers.
I've also interviewed agency owners, hiring managers, and recruiters for graphic design roles, asking them questions specifically about portfolios from new designers. The feedback below incorporates their input as well as input from art directors, creative directors, and others here on this sub who frequently comment about what they look for in a portfolio when hiring for entry level/junior designer positions.
There are many very common pitfalls that new design grads' portfolios fall into, and based on the posts in the past week, they're becoming more common, which is discouraging.
Below is a list of the most common pitfalls that I've documented. For your best chance to get hired into a design position, you need to rework your portfolio to avoid all of them. Yes, every single one, because as I've been told by those hiring managers, over and over – portfolios are often closed within seconds, after the first problem is seen – because that first problem is an indicator that the portfolio will be filled with other issues.
Here's what I recommend avoiding:
• not having your own website as your portfolio – using only Behance, Dribbble, PDF, Instagram, etc.
• not using a custom domain – using www.designername.myportfolio.com or something similar, as well as using free versions of Wix and other platforms that put a banner on your site
• positioning yourself as an illustrator or illustratodesigner – incredibly common
• fine artist-style introductory statements like "I seek to incorporate the essence of whimsy into my creative expressions…" – people hiring graphic designers aren't interested in your artistic goals – you're not a fine artist; at least not when you're looking for a role as a designer
• featuring full sections of illustration/art, photography, or anything other than design on your portfolio – again, incredibly common, and almost always damaging – as one agency owner told me, "it distracts from the ultimate goal of being seen as a designer" – I've written full posts on this – it's often ignored under the assumption that the illustration or photography work will make some kind of personal connection with the hiring manager, helping the designer "stand out" – stand out by showing strong graphic design work and not by showing another related but tangential skill
• no resume or resume not downloadable as a PDF – even if they've already received it, your resume should be on your site
• no link to a LinkedIn profile or LinkedIn profile not active - no/minimal information on the profile, no profile photo, no activity – "the first thing we look for when we get an application is a LinkedIn profile" – agency owner
• social media links – if it's important enough for a hiring manager to see, why would you not include it directly in the portfolio they're already looking at? – often the social media accounts show illustration, photography, or other non-design work, which works against the designer – especially because they've encouraged the hiring manager to click on something that isn't relevant, or to make them feel like they're missing something by not clicking – make your portfolio something to experience and complete quickly and efficiently with no sidequests
• center-aligned text on your website or in your projects – super common because it's the default on many portfolio platforms – it's wrong to center-align blocks of text – do not accept ANY default without question – you're responsible for every element on every piece you create
• coming soon / under construction pages - if it's not ready, don't show people - no one cares what's coming "some day" – and many of these pages or sections will never be completed – from what I've seen, a portfolio that contains an "under construction" or "coming soon" page will be offline within less than a year because the designer isn't disciplined enough to follow through on their plans
• not considering mobile view – optimize for desktop but make sure it works on mobile – despite what you may hear or assume, the vast majority (over 75%) of hiring managers will review portfolios on desktop/laptop
• loading into any page other than your work – avoid landing/intro pages – don't require anyone to click even a single time to see your work
• hamburger menu (three horizontal lines) on desktop view – always use text
• unusual menu names – the most common and acceptable menu is: Work About Contact – there's no reason to deviate from this – using "Biography" or "Profile" instead of "About" only confuses people and can make you look pretentious – stop trying to be original in your portfolio layout and naming conventions
• text spanning full width of page – very common, very wrong – look into OLL and never break it on any piece you create
• typos – have multiple people who are experienced with writing and editing review your portfolio – no exaggeration, one typo can kill your chances at a job and two almost certainly will – an agency owner told me they'll close the portfolio at the first typo – very common is the misspelling of common program names such as Adobe Premiere ("Premier"), InDesign ("Indesign"), After Effects "("AfterEffects"), etc. – not proofing your work is an indicator of sloppy work habits and no one wants that
• presenting yourself an active, successful freelanceagency – the messaging for this is totally different and almost diametrically opposed to how a design candidate presents themselves
• including a shop that sells art prints, clothing, digital assets, or anything else in your portfolio – hiring managers don't hire stores
• including one-off projects – a single image with no other variations or applications
• projects with no description or minimal description – your portfolio should tell a story and a portfolio of single images with no text doesn't do that
• no About page – you need to present yourself as a human being looking to get hired – my recommended formula is: "Hello, I'm ____, a recent grad of [college/university] specializing in [a few common design disciplines]. While working at [internship, if applicable], I've enjoyed learning about [x, y and z – common design skills]. I'm currently looking for my first full time design role (critical). (new paragraph) "While not designing, I enjoy ____ and ____." - this last part humanizes you
• About page written in the third person – you're not a household name brand designer or the subject of a biography – you're a person obviously putting together their own portfolio – don't pretend to be anything else
• too many/too few projects – 5 to 12 is good, somewhere in the middle is ideal
• varying font choice, size, color, alignment, etc. between portfolio pages – I've seen this on a ton of portfolios posted recently – it shows that you thought about your first project, then had some different thoughts about your second project, but you never noticed or cared enough to go back and make everything consistent – this kind of lack of attention to detail will absolutely cripple your chances of getting hired
• not using enough (or any) mockups – or conversely (though more rare) using only mockups – mix it up
• too much empty space on mockups – don't show your design on a 3D mockup of a brochure, on a background that occupies roughly 50% of the image – crop in
• image size not optimized to the page – don't make your images so small that viewers can't really see or absorb your design work – and don't make them larger than the visible area on a desktop browser window, forcing the viewer to scroll to see the full image unless you also show the piece smaller first
• too much work of a similar style, or in similar industries – extremely common – "I like horror and I like illustration so I'll center my work on that" – getting hired as a designer is not about your personal interests, skills, or stylistic preferences – you'll often be hired based on your ability to adapt to an existing style, promoting a product or service that you have little to no personal interest in
• cliché projects – coffee shop, brewery, bakery, music festival poster – do research, create projects based on organizations, industries, and types of projects you're not personally interested in – a strong suggestion is to understand B2B – Business-to-Business, as opposed to B2C – Business to Consumer – when you're young and haven't worked much, you'll think mostly as a consumer who deals with retail businesses like shops and restaurants – but many businesses deal only with other businesses, and sell products and services that the average consumer wouldn't need or even be aware of – focus on those
• too many posters, album covers, t-shirts, etc. – ideally, include only one of these total if at all – they show minimal design effort as they tend to be a single image and minimal text – the portfolios of people who never got hired into design roles were filled with these kinds of fictional projects – they focused on their own interests, and obvious choices, and didn't push themselves to find out what kinds of design work most organizations needed, and that killed their chances of getting hired
• including inappropriate work for the corporate world – nudity, curses, violent imagery, etc. – agencies may tolerate this but in a corporate environment, employees don't want to have issues based on passing on a portfolio that contains anything controversial – yes, emailing your manager a portfolio with naked ladies or the work "F*CK" prominently displayed can be a problem at many companies
• fully justified text – it's almost always set to the program's default with only spacing between words and not letters adjusted, causing ugly results – this shows the laziness of accepting defaults and not questioning the results
• including Lorem Ipsum in work samples, especially in headlines or titles where it's easily seen, meaning at large sizes – even in smaller thumbnails
• poor formatting of bullets – look into this because it's also extremely common on new designers' portfolios and resumes – if your second lines go under the bullet itself, you're not formatting bulleted text properly – it's an immediate red flag – competency of typography is a core skill and minimum required to get hired into any decent design job
• widows, orphans, and runts – if you don't know what this means and you graduated from a college/university with a graphic design degree, you either weren't paying attention or your program failed you – the moment I see a single widow, orphan, or runt is the moment I know someone doesn't care about typography, which means all their work has typographic issues riddled throughout, which will immediately disqualify them from any decent design position
• overuse of hyphenation - another common software default – I've seen projects on this sub with blocks of text that end in a single line containing "-ing" – and sadly, sometimes multiple lines in a row have start in the end of a hyphenated word – a huge indicator of the designer's lack of attention to detail
• design not properly fitting mockups – elements come too close or touching edges of mockups (edge of phone screen, edge of printed paper, etc.)
You may find exceptions to some of these, and if you look long enough, you will – even in portfolios of people who were hired as designers. These are the exceptions, and you shouldn't use exceptions to guide you.
Again, this advice is based on your best chance at getting an interview – and never lose sight of the fact that the interview is your immediate goal, and getting hired into a full time design role is the ultimate end result.
If you look at the new designers who were hired into roles, by and large they're avoiding these pitfalls. The difference between a growth mindset of always looking for how to improve (skills, knowledge, portfolios, etc.) vs. the more common fixed mindset ("I'm good where I am now – I'll just keep sending out my current portfolio") is almost always the difference between getting hired and not.

Hi all, longtime listener, first-time caller. Please see my query and first 300 below.
My biggest question is this: 95% of the story takes place in 2014, but the book opens in 2020 when my main character receives a letter from the California Dept of Fair Housing & Employment informing her of an investigation into behavior at Chatpic. Receiving the letter spurs her to tell the story of what happened back then. The book checks back into 2020 in the middle as my MC tries to get more information about the investigation, and then it ends back in 2020 again when she decides what she wants to do about the letter.
The reason the story takes place in 2014 is because the time period--pre #MeToo/Donald Trump/the workplace reckoning of 2020--informs the decisions the MC makes back then, and she's looking back at it from a wiser perspective. If you've read The Rachel Incident, Caroline O'Donoghue does a similar thing as she retells a 2008 abortion story from the perspective of present day.
In the end, the investigation is not a driving force of the plot--so my question is how important is it that it's mentioned in the query? I ask because I've found that trying to add that piece to what I've already written starts to get convoluted, though obviously I can work at it. I think it's very clear once you read the first 300, but for agents who don't want a sample, is it clear in the blurb that this story is looking back to a time gone by?
Mostly looking for insight on this question specifically, but if you have further feedback about the letter for first 300, open to that as well. Thanks!
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Dear [Agent],
Thank you for the opportunity to submit my query for TERMS OF SERVICE, a true-ish fictional story about a young woman in a nearly impossible workplace a la UNCANNY VALLEY meets THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (with shades of 9 TO 5). TERMS OF SERVICE is complete at 95,000 words.
It’s 2014 and down-and-out celebrity blogger Maggie Clarke is desperate for a fresh start. Not only is she broke in New York City, but at 31, she thought she’d be writing something a little less embarrassing than Justin Bieber listicles by now. When her longtime internet friend Aron York–recently named the world’s youngest billionaire–offers her a lucrative position at his massively popular social media app Chatpic that puts her at the center of his inner circle in Los Angeles, it’s exactly the step-up she’s been waiting for. As Maggie learns to manage the always-on hours, the slew of acronyms, and the unlimited access to free cold brew, she encounters another more complicated problem–the boys’ club. Except this isn’t the typical ham-fisted sexism she’s used to–this is the tech bro variety: insidious, inexorable, and infuriating. When she meets an ambitious young reporter who encourages her to speak out, Maggie has a shot at revenge. But in a world before mansplaining and microaggressions, is blowing the whistle worth the risk? And is anyone ready to hear it?
Like Maggie, I was also plucked from internet obscurity by the world’s (then) youngest billionaire, [redacted], to come work at his massively popular social media app, [redacted company]. I was a founding member of the company’s content team, and all I have to show for it is six footnotes in the [redacted company] biography [redacted title] and the brutal feminist awakening that inspired me to write this manuscript. Before that, I was a full-time writer in New York whose work has appeared on MTV, Rolling Stone and Elle. Currently I’m a content and editorial consultant in Chicago, and I’m also on TikTok where 21,000 people watch me rant about work and office culture. (It’s also where 2M people enjoyed my show-and-tell video about the “sentimental” stock certificates [redacted company previously mentioned] gave a few early employees–that were worth exactly $0.00.)
As the agent who represents [Author 1] and [Author 2], you have a strong list when it comes to complex female characters embroiled in complicated social dynamics. TERMS OF SERVICE would be a great addition to this track because, while similar themes of class and workplace are explored, my flavor of levity and sarcasm makes my work distinct from [Author 1] and [Author 2], bringing a new facet to your program.
If you are interested in reading TERMS OF SERVICE, I would be happy to forward a sample of any length you suggest. Thank you for your consideration!
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First 300:
Chapter 1
2020
A lot of people might revel in the idea of receiving a letter announcing an investigation into their ex-employer.
One might, for example, envision draping themselves in a mink stole, lighting the cigarette at the end of their old-timey cigarette holder, and dialing the investigator’s number from a rotary phone atop a solid wood desk under shadowy, film noir lights. One might then imagine whispering I knew this day would come into the receiver between bursts of psychotic, hysterical laughter as they rejoiced in the long overdue arrival of the long arm of the law.
But me, I wasn’t so sure. Maybe because I didn’t have a mink stole.
No, I was crouched on the ground of my parents’ musky basement in Des Plaines, Illinois, knee-deep in piles of old diaries and CDs when I received notice of one such letter. It was month four of COVID, and Dad and I were only halfway through his cleaning list. He was already a germaphobe so a global pandemic was all he needed to justify a top-to-bottom disinfection of the entire house. And since my routine trip home in the middle of March turned into a hapless extended stay when the world shut down, it was the perfect excuse to put me to work. Just like the good old days.
We wiped down every square inch of the place. We soaked the faucet heads in lemon juice, we scrubbed the coffee mugs with baking soda. We vacuumed the damn fridge.
Reorganizing the basement shelves was a beast. Every box was like a Russian nesting doll of useless crap: old TV Guides, corroded double-A batteries, dried-out cans of paint primer, an unsettling number of hand saws. I made decent headway through the “tools” and “electronics,” but I lost all steam when I got to my high school stuff—faded Polaroids and folded-up notes stopped me in my tracks.

Contest Rules For Best Song Of The Month • Updated May 19th, 2024

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Best Song Of The Month Contest

Music Or Lose It hosts a monthly Best Song Of The Month contest at this musicorloseittv subreddit community. There is no cash or monetary value prize at this time. This contest is simply just for fun. Winners earn the enjoyment of being voted the best. Winners may cite the win in their biographies and social media posts.
The moderator (mod) is available to help music creators with the entry process, eligibility requirements, and deadlines. Music creators are allowed to contact the mod to ask questions about the contest anytime and mod will reply as soon as possible.
Definitions
Music creator: refers to a solo creator, band, group, choir, orchestra, or duo.
Brand identity: refers to how a creator presents themselves as an entertainer making music for the general public. For example, Simon & Garfunkel as a duo is one brand identity. Paul Simon solo is another brand identity.

Process & Deadlines

🟡 Round 1
1) Discovery ◦ Each month, moderator keeps track of songs shared at this musicorloseittv community.
2) Notifying Music Creators ◦ When a likely eligible song is seen, the u/musicorloseittv profile or u/themusicfanman profile will notify the music creator of likely eligibility within the qualifying song’s post. The reply will indicate, “⏳ This song appears eligible for the Best Song Of The Month contest. Please provide the following information…” If the song is confirmed to be eligible by a mod, the mod will make a reply “🟨 This is confirmation notifying you that this song is eligible and in consideration for the Best Song Of The Month contest…” within the qualifying song’s post.
3) Determining Contestants ◦ The Music Fan man will evaluate all eligible songs by the month’s eligibility deadline. He will then at his discretion choose up to 5 songs to compete.
3) Finalists Post ◦ At this musicorloseittv community, the musicorloseittv profile will announce the top finalists (up to 5) in a post tiled “Contest: Best Song Of The Month Finalists (Insert Month & Year).” This announcement will be done in a post made 4 days before the final day of the month. The post will be made sometime in the morning. The songs will be listed within the post in a manner most representative of music diversity as determined by the musicorloseittv profile mod. All songs available on YouTube will be included in a playlist titled “Best Song Of The Month Contestants • (Insert Month & Year)” hosted by the musicorloseittv channel on YouTube. Songs not available on YouTube will be excluded from the playlist. The playlist will be mentioned in this post. The available playlist will help voters get familiar with the songs.
The u/musicorloseittv profile or u/themusicfanman profile will notify the music creators of qualifying for the contest in their post of the song. The reply will indicate, “✅ Congratulations. Your song qualifies for the Best Song Of The Month contest…”
4) Voting ◦ The “Contest: Best Song Of The Month Finalists (Insert Month & Year)” post will specify a duration of 3 consecutive dates during which music fans can vote for only 1 of the top finalists. Voting occurs by the voters making a reply to the post in the following manner: “🗳️ I vote for….” Failing to vote in this manner will result in vote not being counted. To best ensure vote accuracy, voters must not use the “🗳️” emoji anywhere else in the post’s comments section. Music creators may vote for another music creator yet may not vote for themselves. For music creators, it’s “word of honor” voting. The top vote earning song within these three days will become the winner.
‣ Community moderator profiles musicorloseittv and onesongoftheday will abstain from voting. Also, themusicfanman and any special judge involved will also abstain from voting - unless they’re needed to serve as a tie breaker, in the event of a tie preventing a clear winner. If themusicfanman and any special judge involved are needed as a tie breaker, they must come to a consensus to achieve tie breaking. If no special judge is involved, then themusicfanman alone will serve as the tie breaker.
🟢 Winner Declaration!
Declaration Post ◦ At this musicorloseittv community, on the final day of the month, the musicorloseittv profile will announce the winner in a post tiled “Congratulations! 🎉 Best Song Of The Month Winner (Insert Month & Year)” in a post dedicated to celebrating the song. Using the sticky-post feature, the post will be prominently displayed the home page of the musicorloseittv subreddit community for ≈ 24 hours.
Achievement ◦ The contest winner may promote their song as:
My song “Song Title” won:
🏅Best Song Of The Month By Community Vote
(Insert Month & Year)
At The Music Or Lose It Community
The winner may promote themselves and the song as the winner at venues like X/Twitter, Facebook, Threads, or their YouTube channel’s Community feed. The winner may also cite the win in their biographies online including their personal website.
🏆 Song Of The Year
A similar Song Of The Year vote will occur in December. It will be similarly organized and scheduled to conclude on the final day of the year. To determine a Song Of The Year by the end of the year, December’s monthly contest will only be ≈ 2 weeks. Why? Because we need time to conclude The Song Of The Year vote by the end of the year. Additionally, this is a busy time of year for many people. What’s more, non-Christmas music released in December is typically overshadowed by Christmas music. It seems to be a bad idea to release new-original music in late December. See opinion commentary: The Best And Worst Months To Release Music.
Achievement ◦ The contest winner may promote their song as:
🏆 Best Song Of The Year By Community Vote
(Insert Year)
At The Music Or Lose It Community
The winner may promote themselves and the song as the winner at venues like X/Twitter, Facebook, Threads, or their YouTube channel’s Community feed. The winner may also cite the win in their biographies online including their personal website.

Eligibility

Here are the rules for the Best Song Of The Month contest organized by Music Or Lose It just for fun. The eligibility rules are intended to make this contest as fair as possible to the music creator participants.
**👤 Personal: **
Requirements:
✔️ Must be an actual human.
✔️ Must be 17 years of age or older.
✔️ Must be a music creator abiding by the rules of this musicorloseittv subreddit community.
✔️ Must be a music creator posting using either your personal profile or your brand profile as a music entertainer.
Ineligible:
🚫 Profiles run by publicists, music labels, or channels hosting performers.
🚫 People posing as other humans using imitation avatar type creations by artificial intelligence (AI).
**🗿 Music creator’s stature status: **
Eligible:
✔️ Unsigned amateur or unsigned professional yet lesser known.
✔️ Lesser known music creators who have not yet achieved two different songs with over 500,000 views/listens and are signed to deals with small to medium-sized record companies or seeming one-song-per-time type distributors.
✔️ Lesser known music creators who have not yet achieved two different songs with over 500,000 views/listens and are signed to deals with to a major label.
**📅 Release date: **
Eligible:
✔️ Your song must be published and accessible to the masses anytime between November 15^th of the prior year and 5 days before the final day of the current month.
**💽 Songwriting, singing, & recording: **
Requirements:
✔️ You must be the copyright owner of the song (lyrics and sound recording) or authorized/licensed to perform the song by the copyright owner as the first original performer.
✔️ An exception is made if your song is an authorized/licensed remix or includes authorized/licensed interpolation or sampling content by the copyright owner in collaboration with any other amateur music creator(s) or unsigned professional yet lesser known music creator(s). The aforementioned release date also applies to any remix, interpolation, or sampling content.
✔️ Collaborations within the aforementioned rules are allowed so long as the song is entered into the contest by the lead. Lead refers to the first person named in the collaboration.
Ineligible:
🚫 Copyright/trademark violations.
🚫 Songs written by artificial intelligence (AI).
🚫 Songs primarily generated artificial intelligence (AI).
🚫 Cover, parody, nor artificial intelligence (AI) imitation.
🚫 Songs likely to be very divisive for political or religious/anti-religious reasons.
🚫 Collaborations within deceased music creators akin to “Unforgettable” by Natalie Cole featuring Nat "King" Cole.
🚫 Interpolations, remixes, or samplings of a song by a creator signed to a record company of any size or signed to a one-song-per-time type distributor.
🚫 Song with hard cussing. No variations of F word, S word, C word, D word, N word (er or a), ahole word(s), or sexually vulgar words.
🚫 Extremely sexual, gang promoting, violent, or especially scary/gory/maleficent/evil aesthetic content.
🚫 Songs primarily about brands. For example: “I Love Driving Such-And-Such Brand Name Trucks.”
**👂 Recording quality: **
Allowed:
✔️ Professional quality recordings (live or studio).
✔️ Amateur quality (including songs record in a bedroom, car, outdoors, etc…) yet reasonably pleasant sounding.
✔️ Demos are welcome.
Ineligible:
🚫 Live records with too much interfering audience noise.
🚫 Recordings with excessively poor sound quality (abrasive on the ears, difficult to hear).
**📏 Song length: **
Requirement:
✔️ Minimum of 01:15 minutes up to 10:00 minutes.
**💻 Distribution venues: **
Requirements:
✔️ A song published and accessible to the general public masses at a well-known music website such as YouTube, SoundCloud, or Bandcamp.
✔️ A song uploaded to a channel hosting live performances is allowed so long as the song is entered into the contest directly by the creator and so long as the creator confirms permission by the channel. Confirmation can be done in either your original upload URL link source or at this community within your posts’ body-text section or a reply to the post.
✔️ The song’s upload date must be visible at the distribution venue website.
⚠️ If you enter this contest with a Spotify or TikTok URL link, ensure you’ve provided a link for the entire song (not a teasesampler) in a manner that does not require login; ensure the publish date is visible; and be weary of looping flashing visuals necessitating a “⚠️Possible Seizure Trigger Risk Warning.” Failing to do this will result in ineligibility.
Ineligible:
🚫 Login required to access the song.
🚫 Payment required to access the song.
🚫 Uploads of songs directly to Reddit.
🚫 Links not fully available to the public such as an “unlisted” YouTube video.
**🖼️ Song’s artwork: **
Definition: artwork refers to the image/drawing/photo/visuals accompanying your individual song at a music distribution venue such as YouTube, SoundCloud, or Bandcamp. It is sometimes referred to as “cover art.”
Requirements:
✔️ You must be the original creator of the song’s accompanying artwork.
✔️ Alternatively, you must be the copyright owner of the artwork if you paid to have it made. Otherwise you must be authorized/licensed to publish the artwork as part of the presentation of your song.
✔️ Artwork primarily generated by artificial intelligence (AI) is allowed so long as you are authorized/licensed by the AI source to publish the artwork as part of your song’s public presentation. However this is advised against because public sentiment may be hostile towards AI generated content.
✔️ If your song’s artwork uses aspects of copyrighted, creative commons, or “free” material content, you must confirm you’ve got authorization/licensing to use the content as part of your song’s public presentation. Confirmation can be done in either your original upload URL link source or at this community within your posts’ body-text section or a reply to the post.
✔️ Your own logo that you own the copyright to may be displayed in the song’s accompanying artwork (including on a person wearing a hat or T-shirt).
Ineligible:
🚫 Copyright/trademark violations.
🚫 Parody notably displayed in the artwork.
🚫 Visible logos of any brand other than your own logo as a music entertainer.
🚫 Extremely sexual, gang promoting, violent, or especially scary/gory/maleficent/evil aesthetic content.
**🎥 Song’s music video (optional): **
Including a link to a music video is optional.
Requirements:
✔️ You must be the original creator of the song’s music video visuals including: animation; moving graphics; prominently featured still artwork or photos.
✔️ Alternatively, you must be the copyright owner of all the video’s visuals if you paid to have them made. Otherwise you must be authorized/licensed to publish all the video’s visuals as part of the presentation of your song’s accompanying music video.
✔️ Visuals (including: animation; moving graphics; prominently featured still artwork or photos) primarily generated by artificial intelligence (AI) are allowed so long as you are authorized/licensed by the AI source to publish the artwork as part of your song’s public presentation. However this is advised against because public sentiment may be hostile towards AI generated content.
✔️ If your song’s accompanying music video uses aspects of copyrighted, creative commons or “free” material, you must confirm you’ve got authorization/licensing to use the copyrighted material as part of your song’s public presentation within the accompanying music video. Confirmation can be done in either your original upload URL link source or at this community within your posts’ body-text section or a reply to the post.
✔️ Your own logo that you own the copyright to may be displayed in the video (including on a person wearing a hat or T-shirt).
✔️ Allowed music videos include “Official Music Video,” “Live Performance,” “Dance Video Version,” “Animated Video,” or “Lyrics Video.”
✔️ If you opt for an “Animated Video” or a “Lyrics Video,” you must be authorized/licensed to publish all the video’s visuals as part of the presentation of your song’s accompanying music video. If you hire an animator or use AI or an app/software designed to create music video lyrics, you must be authorized/licensed by the animator or AI source or app/software creator to publish the animation and/or lyrics as part of the presentation of your song’s accompanying music video.
✔️ If you opt for a “Dance Video Version,” the dancing and/or choreography must be originally created for your song’s accompanying music video. If you hire a choreographer and/or dancers or collaborate for free or for barter, you must be authorized/licensed by the choreographer and/or dancers to publish the video’s dancing/choreography visuals as part of the presentation of your song’s accompanying music video.
✔️ “Official Audio” type music videos are allowed so long as an accompanying still image complies with the aforementioned “Song’s artwork” rules. Alternatively, if the “Official Audio” music videos has moving visuals, it must comply with these above-mentioned “Song’s music video” rules.
✔️ “Live Performance” music videos may be made from your home/cafield (pretty much anywhere decent and reasonable) or from one of your well-recorded performances from a show. Be sure to avoid copyright and trademark violations in the video.
⚠️ Brief uses of music distribution venue logos at the end or start of a music video may be allowed at mod’s discretion, when the intent is to inform the viewer of venue availability of the song. This is however discouraged unless the distribution venue, at their website, specifies this is allowed. Music videos that display any trademark logos (other than the music creator’s own copyrighted logo) entirely throughout are ineligible.
Ineligible:
🚫 Copyright/trademark violations.
🚫 Notable use of virtual reality program recordings.
🚫 Notable use of filters from apps/websites similar to Snapchat.
🚫 Parody of intellectual property characters prominently displayed in the video.
🚫 Notably visible logos of any brand other than your own logo as a music entertainer.
🚫 Notable display of brand products with visible logos including but not limited to toys, stuffed animals, autos, hats, T-Shirts.
🚫 Extremely sexual, gang promoting, violent, or especially scary/gory/maleficent/evil aesthetic content.
🚫 Limitations on involving minors (under 18 yo): no minors doing dangerous stunts; no depictions of minors participating in drugs/drinking/smoking or very sexual behavior (including sexual dancing); do not prominently feature children that are not your own in the video (exception may be made if a relative only allows you to involve their children).
⚖️ Quantities:
Requirements:
✔️ One song per music creator’s brand identity.
✔️ If a music creator uploads more than one of their brands’ potentially eligible songs, the music creator must inform mod which song they prefer to be included in the contest.
✔️ A music creator may win this Song Of The Month contest up to three consecutive times. If this happens, thereafter the creator must abstain from the contest for the next month and then may return to the contest after that 1-month eligibility hiatus.
Ineligible:
🚫 Every collaboration will not automatically be considered a new brand. For example, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss collaborating one time should not be considered a brand. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss making an entire album together should be considered a brand. Music creators attempting to enter multiple songs under multiple brand names will be scrutinized. If there is no social media presence for any additional brands, their songs will likely be rejected as “also eligible” by mods. If this happens, the music creator will have to enter only 1 song.
**🖱️ Accounts you may post from: **
Requirements:
✔️ Your post must be made directly from either your personal Reddit account profile or your brand’s Reddit account profile.
✔️ If you have a medical condition necessitating aid, on your behalf, you may appoint a publicist, manager, caretaker, helper, spouse, partner, friend, guardian, or family member to post from either your personal Reddit account profile or your brand’s Reddit account profile.
✔️ If your song is from a band, group, choir, orchestra, or duo brand, the post must be made directly from either from one of the members’ personal Reddit account profiles or from your brand’s Reddit account profile.
✔️ If your song is collaboration, the post must be made directly from either the lead’s personal Reddit account profile or from the lead’s brand Reddit account profile.
✔️ If you want another song to be a part of the contest from another brand identity you are involved with, the song must be posted by a Reddit account profile for that separate brand – or one of the brand collaborators’ personal Reddit account profile.
👩🏾‍🏫 Presentation at this musicorloseittv community:
Requirements:
✔️ You must post a link to the song at this musicorloseittv community by tapping “+” on smartphone or clicking “+Create a post” on desktop/laptop. You must select the “My Song” flair.
✔️ Your post must be done by the “Title & Link Share Only method.”
✔️ The song’s URL you provide must be of the standalone song upload - not part of a playlist URL link.
✔️ You may post an audio only upload URL link (such as an individual song published at SoundCloud or Bandcamp). Alternatively, you may post a music video link from a venue like YouTube.
✔️ You may include a smartlink for the individual song (not album or playlist) within your posts’ body-text section or a reply to the post.
✔️ You may title the post whatever you want within the community’s rules and the contest’s rules. Remember: no vague titles; limit post title emojis to no more than 2 (if you decide to use them); and don’t request feedback.
✔️ Your post title may be done in the style of “Entertainer - Song Tile” (or something similar). Alternatively, the post title may be more elaborate. For example: “This Is My Latest Song. It’s About A Wonderful Time I Fell In Love.”
✔️ In your posts’ body-text section or in a reply comment, optionally you may share details about the song that you feel the audience would enjoy knowing.
**📝 Needed information: **
Requirements:
✔️ Within either your posts’ body-text section or within a reply comment at your post, provide the following information – as is:
❇️ Contest entry for your consideration:
• Entertainer's Name - Song Title:
• Published on: [Insert date & year. Refers to date published at your URL link source]
• Genre:
• I am an independent creator unsigned I am signed to [insert label name]
• Interpolations/remixes/samplings disclosure: N/A this song contains authorized/licensed interpolations/remixes/samplings [specify] of another song released since 11/15 of the prior year in collaboration with other unsigned music creator(s)[specify]. The link to the original song is [insert URL link – publish date from URL link source must be visible].
• Al disclosure: N/A. A portion of this [song/artwork/music video] is created by Al. Explanation: [specify if this applies to song/artwork/music video].
• Copyright disclosure for song: I confirm I’m the copyright owner of all the contents of this song (lyrics and recording) as it is presented including the artwork [(if applicable) and music video]
Copyrighted content I am authorized/licensed to use commercially in the promotion of my song include: [insert details]
• [optional/voluntary] Confirmation of substantial human involvement: A real human substantially arranged/compose this music. [Note: This type disclosure is strongly encouraged by creators who use instrument sounds and beats from apps/software in substation of instruments played live at the time of recording. This is especially encouraged for music creators who do not show their face and/or don’t show themselves creating the music in a music video or behind the scenes video. For music fans opposed to music primarily created by AI, this type of disclosure can be helpful and assuring.]
• Lyrics: [insert URL link or embed URL link into “Lyrics” text] [note if the lyrics are available at the upload source] [only if you're the copyright owner of the lyrics, you may entirely include them] [type “vocalized” or “instrumental” if applicable]
Ineligible:
🚫 Uploads of songs to Reddit.
🚫 No engagement pleas disguised as feedback requests in post titles nor in your posts’ body-text section. No feedback requests.
**👨🏼‍⚖️ Copyright/trademark compliance: **
‣ Important note: Aforementioned rules already state you either must be the copyright owner of the content you enter for this contest or you must be authorized/licensed to commercially use the content by the copyright owner. Aforementioned rules already state you must disclose use of copyrighted, creative commons, or “free” material. Mods reserve the right to ask for additional proof for confirmation. Suspected violations will be removed at mod’s discretion. You are strongly encouraged to upload your best, newest, utmost original content.
‣ Resources:
U.S. Copyright Office, Copyright in General https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html
What Musicians Should Know about Copyright by U.S. Copyright Office https://www.copyright.gov/engage/musicians
U.S. Copyright Office Fair Use Index by U.S. Copyright Office https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use
**🤝 Mutual Support **
Requirements:
✔️ You must be active in the musicorloseittv community regarding mutual support and engagement with other posts. You must post a comment reply to at least two other posts of any kind at the musicorloseittv community before the final day of the month. Failing to do so will result in disqualification.
Ineligible:
🚫 Posting then ghosting the community.
**😎👍 Encouraging fans to vote: **
Ineligible:
🚫 You are not allowed to ask for votes in anywhere in the musicorloseittv community’s comments section.
🚫 Music creators may not offer anything to anyone whatsoever in exchange for voting for them.
Allowed:
✔️ If you see a music fan has voted for you, you may thank them in a reply comment.
✔️ You may make social media posts at venues like X/Twitter, Facebook, Threads or your YouTube channel’s Community feed to encourage your fans to join this musicorloseittv subreddit community and vote for your song.
Example post:
My song “Song Title” is a finalist for Best Song Of The Month at the musicorloseittv community at Reddit. At [insert URL link] please vote for me and my song. Thank you.
**📜 Rules adherence: **
‣ Important note: If you are new to the musicorloseittv community as either a music fan voting or music creator entering the contest, latitude may be given as you get familiar here. It’s up to mod’s discretion.
‣ Important note: This contest is just for fun. Likewise playing boardgames or cards with friends is also just for fun yet people expect rules to be followed.
**🕊️ Truthfulness: **
Requirements:
✔️ Contestants and voters are expected to behave honorably and ethically.
Ineligible:
🚫 If anyone is ever discovered cheating or being dishonest akin to author James Frey or music entertainers Milli Vanilli, they will be disqualified and also likely be banned from this community.
Additional Info
If you do not want to be in the contest yet want to continue sharing your songs in this community, it is totally ok. Please inform the moderator. A “Message the mods” option is at the homepage.
In circumstances where uncertainty arises due to an unforeseen issue not addressed here in this outline of rules, moderators reserve the right to approve or disapprove eligibility. Moderators reserve the right to disqualify any song for any reason. Unfortunately, not every contest can perfectly satisfy all participant hopefuls.
Just do your best, don’t take it too seriously, and have fun.
Thank you.
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Bio from The Festival Voice

Artist Biography by Daniel Karasek
Four Tet, aka Kieran Hebden, is a British DJ and producer who serves up indie electronic music, blending organic and engineered sounds. He started his career as the guitar player for Fridge, an instrumental group he co-founded in 1995 that mixed instrumentation with electronics. The band released several albums and EPs via Output Recordings and Go! Beat. The former label issued Kieran’s debut solo release of the single “Double Density” in 1997. It wasn’t until 1998 that Kieran debuted his Four Tet project with the single “Thirtysixtwentyfive” which was a jazzy track. Four Tet’s debut album Dialogue arrived in 1999. His second album Pause came out in 2001 after he signed to Domino. This album used more acoustic guitars than his previous releases, dubbing the sound as “folktronica” by the media. He started his own label called Text Recordings which released Fridge’s fourth album Happiness. In 2003, Four Tet released his sample-based 2003 album Rounds which received widespread critical claim. The album appeared on many year-end lists and also got Four Tet the opening slot for Radiohead’s European tour. In the following two decades, he collaborated with artists including Madvillain, Sia, Ellie Goulding, and eventually Skrillex in 2021. This collaboration got Four Tet working with Skrillex and Fred again.. for the 2023 single “Baby again..” and playing with them at Coachella 2023, Madison Square Garden, and in Times Square.

 
Genre: DJ, EDM, Indie Electronic, House, Folktronica
Scheduled: Sunday
Songs & Sets:
Tame Impala - Is It True (Four Tet Remix) (Official Visualiser)
Four Tet Boiler Room London Live Set
Four Tet @TheLotRadio 12-01-2023
Four Tet - Baby (Official Music Video)
Have you seen Four Tet before? Please share your experience and favorite songs.
 

Days Until Bonnaroo: 36

Remember to drink water and warm up those high fives!
 
Link to previous AotD post

Version 10.1.0
Notes:

• Please do not forget to leave an up to date textual review on Play Store. Your feedback plays a crucial role in building the app’s ranking, ensuring a future for Symfonium.

Added:

• Added pCloud support as a provider now that they finally agreed to allow me to use their API.
• Added stable date added option to Local device provider. (Prevent update of the date added of media when they are edited)
• Added sort content by year to playlists.
• Added new setting to control the preferred language for Last.FM artist biography scrapping.
• Added backup and restore of Internet radios to the backup manager.
• Added backup and restore of Playlists to the backup manager.
• You can now click artist album group headers to directly access filtered lists for quick actions.
• Added export and import smart playlists to files.
• Added offline status to smart filters.
• Added support for channelCount, samplingRate and bitDepth new OpenSubsonic fields.
• Added new option to sort home favorites by date of favoriting instead of last played. (Except for Subsonic providers, this will only work for favorites created after this update)
• Added support for Rewind and Fast forward external commands (Car, Headsets, …)
• Added per channel pre amp configuration to DSP to allow left/right balance. (Note: If you used single channel preAmp before you need to reconfigure the values!)
• Added support for Description tag to Symfonium tag parser (Will be used as Album description)

Changed:

• Tweaked a few design details.
• Manually removing the notification on Android 9 and 10 now stop current queue.
• Moved Manage Symfonium generated files to main settings page and add a copy to Download folder button.
• Starting a radio mix or instant mix from now playing media will no more restart the current media but only change the rest of the queue.
• Playlist list now support long press multi select for easy deletion or favorite handling of multiple playlists.

Fixed:

• Fix a couple of color issues with expanded now playing and some combination of settings.
• Fix Ignore sort articles setting not applied to artists for Symfonium custom parser.
• Fix album split configuration not accessible for cloud providers.
• Added workaround for some invalid replay gain values.
• Fix possible wrong song played when shuffle mode is not reset.
• Fix sometimes broken shuffle button leading to badly shuffled songs.
• Try to use more unique Android Auto internal image urls to avoid Android Auto cache issue displaying the wrong images.
• Fix possible issues with Tag parser for SMB provider for some less valid media.
• Better handling of the song list page when sorting by random.
• Ignore ICY data sent by servers when not streaming Internet radios.
• Fix transcoding support from OneDrive.
• Fix Keep screen on setting behavior when configured to While showing lyrics.
• Improve possible notification blinking on Android 9 and 10.

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https://support.symfonium.app/t/support-me-and-symfonium/760
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After delving back into the games thanks to the series, I have been reminded of Moira’s Memoirs from the original version of the Fallout 3 game guide. This afterword included in the book has its canonicity in question, but remains the only known information about Lone post Fallout 3, and offers context into a bit of the aftermath. A couple details I feel are pretty damning in this entry being canon. The memoir reads as follows:
Date: 09.10.2297
Welcome, MOIRA. It is another lovely day for science!
DAILY LOG:
Experiment Reports:
Irradiated Agriculture—Good response from mutfruit), strangely aggressive response to baseline sample. Purified water) very helpful.
Deathclaw) Communication—No language that I can discern, unless "Mutilating assistants" counts. What would they have to say, anyway?
Jefferson Purifier - Guards still refuse to allow access to see how the Purifier works. They say it's to prevent sabotage, but I think they aren't entirely certain.
Personal Note:
Just shipped out another crate of survival guides), and the caravans just can't seem to get enough of them. Sheriff Simms says they've really put Megaton on the map—pretty ironic, since I've had to redraw that map about a million times since the first edition came out 20 years ago. At least all the attention means there's no shortage of assistants, but I'm never getting another assistant like the Lone Wanderer who stumbled into my shop so long ago.
Just about everyone in the Capital Wasteland has a story about the Lone Wanderer, even though precious few ever really knew him. But that doesn't stop them from telling crazy tall tales about how he saved their lives, or blew up a mountain, or ate a car or something. Heck, if you get Simms drunk, he'll tell you that his dad died because of the Wanderer), even though he saved the town. People can't even agree on whether the Wanderer was a man or a woman, much less a saint or a monster. But they all agree on one thing: the Lone Wanderer changed the Capital Wasteland.
Of course, that's why I'm working on the new book, compiling the best and most useful tales of the Lone Wanderer for the next generation. It's not easy sorting out all the conflicting stories, but that'll be half of the fun for the readers. More importantly, between all of those crazy stories of bravery, barbarity, and everything in-between, we can all find a reason to keep on fighting our war for survival.
I guess some things never change, huh?
I have 3 major takeaways from this memoir with the context of the show and subsequent games. 1. The date of 2297, this is roughly where the show just left off. 2. Moira ships out Survival guides by the crateful and “caravans love them.” This one line explains how the guides made their way to Filly and the Mojave, and implies that her, Lone, and Megaton are nationally famous for this book. 3. The Lone wanderer no longer resides in the capital wasteland. Reasons 2 and 3 are Moira’s reasons for beginning to write the biography about Lone. Lone is made out to be a living legend in the wastes. For a bit of theory as to HOW he appears in the show, I think the word of an enclave defector and an enclave presence that travels as far as the east coast brotherhood would strike the interest of Lone. After all, he defeated them twice before, and I dont think would be too happy to hear they are still active elsewhere. We also know Lone has a significant link with the BoS, so he could have inside knowledge of this situation. Possibly motivating him to travel with the brotherhood and eliminate this threat once and for all. This is just me making fun ideas though.
Now comes the question: What actor portrays Lone Wanderer?
For me, my fancast came to me immediately. What actor is capable of playing Liam Neeson’s son?
Liam Neeson’s Son. Michael Richardson, is an actor in his own right, and is roughly the same age Lone would be at the time of 2297.
Here is a photo of Michael: https://www.google.com/imgres?q=michael%20richardson&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.vanityfair.com%2Fphotos%2F5f20a6f4736a462fb95308bc%2Fmaster%2Fw_2560%252Cc_limit%2Fmichael-richardson-interview.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vanityfair.com%2Fhollywood%2F2020%2F07%2Fmicheal-richardson-pays-sweet-homage-to-late-mother-natasha&docid=PqpaJykECAlEgM&tbnid=RcBaSHkPSNgvXM&vet=12ahUKEwiYxff369qFAxVWOzQIHRV5D3oQM3oECCMQAA..i&w=1335&h=2000&hcb=2&ved=2ahUKEwiYxff369qFAxVWOzQIHRV5D3oQM3oECCMQAA
Here is a photo of what I believe is the canon appearance of Lone. Theyre pretty damn similar: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81YDo5gGD6L.jpg
All this to say,, this is just my crackpot ideas of how to introduce Lone into the show. I am well aware Todd is on record saying he does not want the shows to touch the games, but I find the stories of our protagonists to be remarkably compelling and their stories can be far from over. Aside from this, there are so many parallels between Lone and Lucy, their interaction and character dynamic would be one that could prove compelling to explore. Itd be a bit like the “ive seen shit kid” attitude that the ghoul has to Lucy, but with an added layer of empathy and understanding, as Lone may be the only person on the planet who truly knows what Lucy is going through. They both were raised in a vault and were forced into the world at a young age and had to “figure it out.”
The timeline matches up, the means of travel check out, and the compelling character relationships are prime for exploration.
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I’ll preface this by clarifying I’m not a ‘lamb’ per se. I listen to a broad range of genres and artists but generally the music I listen to would be classified as ‘alternative’ I guess. I’v obviously always known the name Mariah Carey, but essentially my only previous interaction with her music (before last year) was a very early and vague memory of watching a music video of her on a rollercoaster and also listening to ‘Hero’ and ‘Without You’ on TV as a 6 year old boy in the 90’s and thinking ‘how is it possible that someone can sing like that?’. Other than her christmas song that shows up every year I didn’t know any of her other material and the only opinions I had of her as a person were fuelled by the endless stories that portrayed her being very difficult to work with. I wrote her off as an unlikable, cruel, hyper feminine ‘premadonna’.
Then last summer I was randomly reading a pitchfork article of ‘the 200 best songs of the 90s’. Being a child of the 90’s I love a nostalgia fix, and to my complete bafflement the number 1 song was the ODB Fantasy remix. I had absolutely no idea what this song was but I was intrigued so checked it out. It was awesome and instantly triggered 90’s nostalgia. I thought ‘wait a minute, that’s the roller coaster video song, I remember that, it sounds like a Talking Heads song, I swear I've heard that bass lick before?’. Then a few days later a friend of mine was giving away some of her unwanted books and I saw Mariah's memoir. I’m partial to reading completely random musical biographies, so on a whim I thought I'd check it out. It was a strange read at times. At first her lengthy and bizarre hair related mishap tangents definitely fed into the superficial hyper feminine persona that I'm not comfortable with, however I liked how this dissatisfaction with her unkempt curly hair related to racial insecurity, social standing and feelings of not belonging. The last 3rd of the book about her relationships with a back up dancer and the marriage to that comedian guy was a bore however I found her early childhood and career stories endearing and actually quite moving.
I started listening to some more of her music. If i’m completely honest a lot isn’t really my jam however for most of the summer I’d unashamedly spin Honey, Make it Happen, Heartbreaker, Fantasy, Get Your Number. Basically her sample based/ funkier stuff. Recently the youtube algorithms offered me some of her interviews and to be absolutely honest I felt quite sad for her watching them. I’m not a psychologist by any means but I get the impression she seems completely scarred by some of the trauma from her life; from the teachers laughing as a child at her when she drew her black father, racists firing bullets through the front windows of her home, being hurled racist insults by her popular white girl ‘friends’, innocuous events such as her childhood crush laughing at her, to being mockingly informed ‘that's your ugly side’ when she was an impressionable and sensitive young women starting out in the industry etc. Many of the interviews I saw her in made reference to ‘not showing my bad side’, shunning any inference to ‘time’ and implication aging, or the interviewer saying ‘look at all this lighting you’ve brought along’. She also just in general often looks very insecure and uncomfortable in her own skin. She reminds me of Michael Jackson. If you watch the Martin Bashir documentary he was also obsessed with ‘lighting’ and hated looking at himself. Does she have body dysmorphia or am I reading this completely wrong? Relating all this to her book, her ‘diva’ behavior seems more born out of her perfectionist and sensitive nature combined with a complete phobia of being ridiculed, criticized or mocked again. Underneath it all she seems a genuinely sweet person but her high maintenance behaviour gives the general public (such as myself) a completely wrong perception of who she really is, and I think harms her brand and legacy as a artist. Now I've learnt what could really explain her eccentricities I will now fight her corner whenever people are disparaging towards her, on behalf of you ‘lambs’.

"Do not Follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail"
- Muriel Strobe
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Who Is Muriel Strode? (quotegarden.com)
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Who Is Muriel Strode?
The author I’m currently reading is Muriel Strode, an amazing woman — strong, gutsy, spiritual, creative, generous, intelligent, talented, and hard-working. Her writing is both down-to-earth and celestial, humble in spirit and yet fiercely, fearlessly ambitious. Her poems run the gamut from blushingly soul-sensual and nature-erotic to mystical and motivating, from poetic positive affirmations and self-discovery to some downright trippy verse.
There is very little information about Muriel on the Web, but I’ve pieced together this brief biography from a few dozen electronic and paper sources, and I’ve updated this article with further information from Muriel’s family for which I’m extremely grateful!
Early life & family. Born Muriel Strode on February 16th 1875 in Bernadotte Township, Illinois, her grandparents were pioneers and she spent her childhood on the farm where they originally settled. Her father William Smith Strode (1847–1934) was a naturalist, teacher, and physician. Her mother Amelia Steele Strode (1849–1888) died young, at age 39. A couple of years after she passed away, William married Julia Yarnell Brown (1866–1954), a periodicals writer. Muriel’s four siblings, all Illinois-born were:

• Winifred Strode Morrison (1872–1916), who had seven children, one of whom was named Muriel Marie
• Walter Lucien Strode (1877–1917), a grocery salesman
• John William Strode (1884–1957), who studied mining then moved to Arizona in 1907. After serving in the military, he served two governors as executive secretary, including Arizona’s first governor, George W. P. Hunt. Later, J. W. was editor of the Miami (Arizona) Silver Belt and president of the Arizona Democratic Association.
• Catherine Joane Brown Strode (1895–1969), half-sister, who graduated young, studied art in Chicago, and moved to California at age 19. She became an established artist using the pseudonym Joane Cromwell.

Venturing out on her own. Muriel left home at age 15 and attended a business school in Denver. At 16 she went to Long Beach, California to earn her living as a stenographer and typewritist. She began writing poetry in the midst of her business career. In 1906 she used her savings to purchase two lots in Signal Hill for $1,000 then moved to New York for a career as a writer.
📷Husband & daughter. In 1908 she married Samuel David Lieberman (1875–1952), the president of an iron and steel firm in Chicago where Muriel had worked. His love interest in her began when he read the inspirational sayings and poems in her first publication, My Little Book of Prayer. He and Muriel had one foster child, Elinore Anne Clifford Austin (1914–2006), born in Colorado and taken in at three years old. The family lived in New York City for several years before moving to California in 1923, when oil was discovered on Muriel’s land and she had suddenly become rich.
Riches & philanthropy. With part of her new riches, Muriel gathered seventeen young wives and mothers, one for each year she had owned the properties, and took them on a shopping spree for beautiful gowns, hats, earrings, undergarments, and other dainty, colorful things. “I was a distributor of wings, I released them into a realization of their beauty. We are all beautiful in our elemental state. We all want to be moon moths in the glowing. But like the flowers, we need petals to show off our beauty. I want to set people free into beauty. I want to take them out of their Cinderella ashes to function as princesses,” she told reporter Ruth Snyder. “It is a poem of pain to feel the urge toward the unfolding of the wings of beauty. It is a song of ecstasy to release it. All my life I have wanted to do something big and useful and beautiful — to help others.”
Shortly thereafter in another display of generosity, she purchased a run-down waterwheel mill in her girlhood Illinois township and with her father, oversaw the restoration of it and its dam as a historic landmark, its surrounding area converted to a public park and playground. At age 80, she wrote in a letter that “I left part of my heart back in Bernadotte years ago and I have never gotten over being homesick.”
Arizona & final years. The Strode–Lieberman family moved to Arizona in 1929 due to Sam’s tuberculosis. They homesteaded on 640 acres fourteen miles east of Tucson, and their home sat atop a ridge overlooking the entire Tucson valley. Muriel’s father, who was then divorced from Julia, had retired and moved in with the Liebermans. They had originally planned to build a solid rock home, every day making three-mile excursions into the desert to collect rocks. The passings of Muriel’s father and husband put a stop to the plan, however, and Muriel lived out the remainder of her days in the original wood-framed home.
In a 1955 letter Muriel wrote, “I have come a devious route to land eventually on these desert acres, as Mr. Lieberman’s business took him traveling and we lived in half the important cities in the United States.” But once in southern Arizona, that is where she stayed. She would sign her letters and books from “the Ranch of the Gorgeous Sunsets, Tucson, Arizona.” Muriel passed away on January 25th 1964 after twelve years’ struggle with a heart ailment.
📷Writing & publications. Her habit was to write her thoughts and ideas every morning, and she continued to work on her writings and manuscripts even into her final years. She had first published in periodicals, mostly The Open Court. The first publication I found her cited in was The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest, from 1901. Later she authored four books:

• My Little Book of Prayer, 1904, “a collection of thoughts on the spiritual side of nature, moral fortitude and other uplifting themes” (Judy Donovan)
• My Little Book of Life, 1912, “a personal philosophy of life that spells courage, cheer, and serenity” (The Open Court)
• A Soul’s Faring, 1921, “tumultuous imagery, mighty seething seas of words, of similes, of metaphors, of themes of love and life and death and the Beyond” (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
• At the Roots of Grasses, 1923, “the very rhapsody of an American soul pouring itself forth in songs of the strong” (Charles Fleischer)

In her heyday Muriel was known as “the female Walt Whitman.” She was a member of the Poetry Society of America and The League of American Pen Women. She wrote her entire career under her birth name Muriel Strode, omitting the hyphenated Lieberman on post-marriage publications. One of the books I have is signed “Muriel Strode — Mrs. Sam D. Lieberman.”
Sometimes she received harsh critiques in the newspapers. Some reviewers who did not understand her writing thought it egotistical. In 1923 she explained to a reporter, “When I say ‘I,’ I mean the cosmic ‘I,’ speaking to the cosmic ‘you.’” On reading her books, it seems clear to me that she was not egotistical but mystical. She said in a 1962 interview, “I don’t mind adverse criticism. It doesn’t matter if I’m misinterpreted because not everyone will understand what I’m trying to say.”
Those who did understand her cosmic perspective handed out more favorable reviews. “Muriel Strode has a distinctive touch in free verse rhythms. She uses them to interpret optimistically and broadly the elemental forces of being, and she strikes a high note of endeavor and faith in life without glossing over its inevitable question” (The Kansas City Times, 1921).
“Few poets are as prolific in sheer beauty as Muriel Strode. Her work is marked with richness, the forms she chooses for expression are diverse and through all her work there is the rumbling of the seeker of truth. Miss Strode’s poems are a revelation in inspiration. There seems no end to her philosophic thoughts. There is a virility of beauty in this poet’s work” (Howard Willard Cook, 1923). She “sings of the things elemental in universal nature and in human nature” (Charles Fleischer). During her childhood in Fulton County, Illinois, she “breathed in the beauty and the intense love of nature and the elemental things of life that flame out in her poetry” (The Fulton Democrat).
Names. Other names she was known by include: Muriel Strode-Lieberman, Muriel Lieberman, Muriel S. Lieberman, Mrs. Samuel D. Lieberman, Mrs. S. D. Lieberman, and Mrs. Sam Lieberman. The 1880 census lists “Muray Strode,” but her surviving family is not aware of that nickname so it is possibly a typo or a childhood pet name that didn’t last. 📷
Famous quote & found treasures. There were quite a few newspaper articles about Muriel during her publishing days and when she first got rich from oil, but I can’t find personal references much past her death date. Sadly, she seems to have disappeared from history, excepting her famous 1903 words “I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail,” which around the 1990s had started being widely misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson. I am exceptionally pleased to digitally revive this wonderful poetess — I’ve been posting selected quotations from her works to The Quote Garden. Here is a sample gem: “I will have a care lest my burden rest all too long where my wings might have grown.” —Muriel Strode, My Little Book of Life, 1912
Image Information. Photo of Muriel is unknown date, courtesy of Muriel’s family, modified by Terri Guillemets using imikimi app, 2017. Book cover is My Little Book of Life by Muriel Strode, 1912. Muriel’s signature is from the 1934 application for her father’s headstone.
Acknowledgement. I am eternally grateful to Muriel’s family for providing the information to expand this bio, as well as the beautiful photograph and retroactive permission to use her words on my website. Thank you so much!

Among the symbols of the Great Houses, they are all animals, the Tyrells are Flowers...
Two stick out immediately:

• It is the red three headed Dragon of House Targaryen - a symbol for the Devil!
• And the spear piercing the Sun - That is a symbol for JESUS. Jesus is the sun, and well, he got pierced with a spear.

I went to art school once and know thoroughly how you can craft fiction like ASOIAF from pop-cultural samples.
I'd say the Prince that was promised is NOT a Targaryen prophecy (sorry HBO), but RHOYNISH. Rhaegar, who was beautiful and played the harp like King David, and who..well Rhaegar died fighting Goliath, believed the Prince that was promised would come from his line...
Rhaegar is not just a Targ. He's rhoynish, too. He's got the blood of Houses Martell and Dayne in him, the blood of Nymeria, who led her people through an exodus to...escape slavery lol I think we've got it now.
There are huge oddities regarding the Dorne plot that you cannot uncover in the text:
1) Chess motives:

• "Doran plays to win, whether at cyvasse or the game of thrones." - Quote GRRM

So Doran is a chess player who plays to win. GRRM organized Chess tourneys before writing ASOIAF (Source: "One Night with Shae").

• Tower of Joy is Castling

Castling is a Chess move where you PROTECT the King with a Rook and three pawn pieces, similar with TOJ, we got the King guarded by a Tower and three pawns.

• Sending Quentyn to Meeren is Pawn Promotion

Pawn promotion is a chess move where you send a pawn to the end of the board to transform it into another piece, typically the Queen. In Cyvasse, the equivalent of the Queen is called Dragon.

• A common saying is that white wins and black plays for draw.

Team Blackfyre is black, and they always have to retreat, so if Doran wants to win, he is their opponent and picked white.
2) Observation about snow

• Snow is white

3) Strange similarities between the Martells and the Lizardmen from WHFB

• The Lizardmen come in three tribes, the scheming, toad like Slann, the poisonus and numerous Skinks and the powerful Saurus.
  
• Similar, there are three types of Martells:
  
• Toads/Frogs, like the Yellow Toad of Dorne, or Quentyn who is often called a frog, or Doran, who sits in the Water Gardens all day.
  
• Snakes, like Oberyn Martell, the Red Viper, or his daughters, the Sand Snakes
  
• and lastly, plenty of Dragons descend from them, too.
  

What is the meaning of this? Well, I don't know too much about WHFB but the Lizardmen work together with the High Elves, who have like long silver-blonde or platinum hair and ride dragons...to SAVE THE WORLD
4) Save the World

"If I led a quarter of a million men to death, would they call me Gerold the Great? I shall remain Darkstar, I think. At least it is mine own."

—Gerold Dayne to Garin
Peoples consensus on Darkstar is "He is an edgelord lol". This community has meticulously crafted through any mystery in the text, but when you have an unsolved crime setting the conclusion is "He is an edgelord"???
I'd say based on the quote, he moves to save millions.
Interestingly enough, Varys also justifies his actions with doing it for the children when he murdered Kevan Lannister, and there was no reason to lie about in that instance...yet people have pointed out how contradictory that is with his actions...
5)Prophecy and visions.
I think the certaincy with which Team Rhaegar moves does not only imply being motivated by prophecy, but by having seen an actual vision. After all, if Doran is supporting Jon, then his actions make no sense unless he thinks Jon is safe anyways because he saw him die.
That's right, I think Team Rhaegar and Team Blackfyre have seen the same vision, the latter when Varys member was burned by the mage, and it is:
Jon Snow on the Iron Throne getting murdered by Young Griff.
That's why Rhaegar first thought his son Aegon would be the Prince that was Promised, because he confused him with Young Griff, and thought Jon was just some random, until realizing Jon is actually his son that he still needs to create.
Now we readers know how unreliable prophecy is, basically I think Rhaegar got shown a vision that relied on him beating Robert at the Trident and that is thus never going to come to pass. I admit this part is the sketchiest, but it would explain why Doran makes no move for Jon. He thinks he has seen his death and is making preparations to evade it.
7) White vs Black
And Varys on the other hand thinks Young Gryff, in truth likely called Daemon the last Blackfyre or something...I think D(a)emon is the best name here...thinks Young Gryff is the Prince that was Promised, hence the weird speech for Kevan.
I think Mellario of Norvos was a Blackfyre spy. Lust is the weakness of the Martells. All the Essos wifes were up to no good, and there are huge discrepancies in her biography:

• She left Doran because he intended to foster away his children, which they apparently don't do in Norvos
• However there they sell their children to the Bearded Priests. That is the background of her own guard Areo Hotah.
• She then leaves her children anyways and abandons them alltogether. Lol?

Mellario..Illyrio..not much but...
8) The human heart at conflict with itself
Regardless of what you think of the above, what now follows is 100% true.
George said there is nothing else to write about than the human heart at conflict with itself.
And all of this story is just George's idealized self Rhaegar Targaryen, who attempts to save his world by completing the Song of Ice and Fire
in conflict with
his real self Illyrio Mopatis, the bumbling cheesemonger who makes false promises and changes his plans every day.

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Artist Biography by Daniel Karasek
Bakar is an indie singeproducer from North London. In 2015, he started making his own tracks out of chopped-up King Krule samples that were uploaded online anonymously. In 2017, he started releasing singles under his own name including "Big Dreams" and "Something I Said." The next year he released his debut full-length titled Badkid which got endorsements from artists including Skepta and Elton John. Bakar has since shifted around his sound in each of his releases, like on his EP Will You Be My Yellow? which has six songs that vary in style and genre.

 
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1. The Upstairs Delicatessen

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By: Dwight Garner
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Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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4 out of 5 stars8 ratings
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1. The Rural Diaries

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1. Whiskey in a Teacup

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4.5 out of 5 stars4,718 ratings
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1. Herbal Antibiotics: What BIG Pharma Doesn't Want You to Know

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4.5 out of 5 stars28 ratings
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The Other End of the Leash Audiobook By Patricia McConnell PhD cover art

1. The Other End of the Leash

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By: Patricia McConnell PhD
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4.5 out of 5 stars1,550 ratings
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1. Training Your Own Service Dog at Home

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5 out of 5 stars55 ratings
Organizing for the Rest of Us Audiobook By Dana K. White cover art

1. Organizing for the Rest of Us

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Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
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5 out of 5 stars907 ratings
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1. Second Nature

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Release date: 03-12-10
4.5 out of 5 stars1,418 ratings
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1. In the Weeds

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By: Tom Vitale
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4.5 out of 5 stars774 ratings
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The Last Castle Audiobook By Denise Kiernan cover art

1. The Last Castle

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Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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4.5 out of 5 stars937 ratings
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1. How Dogs Love Us

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By: Gregory Berns
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Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
Release date: 10-22-13
4 out of 5 stars1,272 ratings
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1. Inside of a Dog

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By: Alexandra Horowitz
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Release date: 03-22-16
4.5 out of 5 stars796 ratings
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All Things Wise and Wonderful Audiobook By James Herriot cover art

1. All Things Wise and Wonderful

Series: All Creatures Great and Small, Book 3
Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
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5 out of 5 stars2,740 ratings
Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff Audiobook By Matt Paxton, Jordan Michael Smith - contributor cover art

1. Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff

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By: Matt Paxton, Jordan Michael Smith - contributor
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Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
Release date: 02-08-22
4.5 out of 5 stars182 ratings
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Puppy Training in 7 Easy Steps Audiobook By Mark Van Wye, Zoom Room Dog Training cover art

1. Puppy Training in 7 Easy Steps

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Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
Release date: 09-24-19
5 out of 5 stars73 ratings

1. All Things Wise and Wonderful

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Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
Release date: 12-27-22
5 out of 5 stars85 ratings
The Lord God Made Them All Audiobook By James Herriot cover art

1. The Lord God Made Them All

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Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
5 out of 5 stars2,153 ratings
Outdoor Kids in an Inside World Audiobook By Steven Rinella cover art

1. Outdoor Kids in an Inside World

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Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
Release date: 05-03-22
5 out of 5 stars1,302 ratings
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Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
Release date: 11-04-22
4.5 out of 5 stars25 ratings
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1. World Travel

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By: Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever
Narrated by: Laurie Woolever, Shep Gordon, Christopher Bourdain, Jen Agg, Matt Walsh, Bill Buford, Claude Tayag, Nari Kye, Vidya Balachander, Steve Albini
Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
4 out of 5 stars393 ratings
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1. Pappyland

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By: Wright Thompson
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Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
Release date: 11-10-20
4.5 out of 5 stars860 ratings
The Vegetarian Myth Audiobook By Lierre Keith cover art

1. The Vegetarian Myth

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By: Lierre Keith
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Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
Release date: 01-25-12
4 out of 5 stars629 ratings
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1. Upstream

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By: Langdon Cook
Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
Release date: 05-30-17
4.5 out of 5 stars37 ratings
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1. Cork Dork

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By: Bianca Bosker
Narrated by: Bianca Bosker
Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
Release date: 03-28-17
4.5 out of 5 stars1,597 ratings
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1. Crate Training for Puppies: How to Crate Train Your Puppy in Just 3 Days

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By: Ethan Adrian
Narrated by: Nathan Rooks
Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
Release date: 11-13-18
4 out of 5 stars58 ratings
Regular price: $6.95
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Audiobook By Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp cover art

1. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

A Year of Food Life
By: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp
Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp
Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
Release date: 04-25-07
4.5 out of 5 stars2,239 ratings
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1. Order from Chaos

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By: Jaclyn Paul
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Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
Release date: 05-25-21
4.5 out of 5 stars191 ratings
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1. Tidy the F*ck Up

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By: Messie Condo
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
Release date: 06-02-20
4.5 out of 5 stars158 ratings
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1. Sacred Spaces

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By: Susan D. Fay PhD
Narrated by: Susan D. Fay PhD
Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
Release date: 03-17-22
5 out of 5 stars87 ratings
The Pet I Can’t Forget Audiobook By Karen A. Anderson cover art

1. The Pet I Can’t Forget

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By: Karen A. Anderson
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Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
Release date: 12-16-23
4.5 out of 5 stars9 ratings
The Eighty-Dollar Champion Audiobook By Elizabeth Letts cover art

1. The Eighty-Dollar Champion

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By: Elizabeth Letts
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Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
5 out of 5 stars301 ratings
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1. The Ultimate Book of Fun Things to Do in Retirement: Volume 1

By: S.C. Francis
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Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
Release date: 06-22-23
5 out of 5 stars43 ratings
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1. Spark Joy

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Narrated by: Sumalee Montano
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Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
Release date: 01-05-16
4.5 out of 5 stars2,831 ratings
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Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
Release date: 02-28-23
4 out of 5 stars35 ratings
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1. The Minimalist Home

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By: Joshua Becker
Narrated by: Joshua Becker
Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
Release date: 12-18-18
4.5 out of 5 stars930 ratings
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1. Nature's Best Hope

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By: Douglas W. Tallamy
Narrated by: Adam Barr
Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
Release date: 05-19-20
5 out of 5 stars425 ratings
The Agent's Edge Audiobook By Jordan Cohen, Mark Tabb - contributor, Sylvester Stallone cover art

1. The Agent's Edge

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By: Jordan Cohen, Mark Tabb - contributor, Sylvester Stallone
Narrated by: Jordan Cohen, Eric Simon, Matt Lionetti
Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
Release date: 06-06-23
5 out of 5 stars66 ratings
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1. The Rooted Life

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By: Justin Rhodes
Narrated by: Justin Rhodes
Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
Release date: 03-01-22
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1. French Women Don't Get Fat

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By: Mireille Guiliano
Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
Release date: 12-21-05
4.5 out of 5 stars669 ratings
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1. Wine and War

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By: Donald Kladstrup, Petie Kladstrup
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Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
Release date: 03-27-12
4.5 out of 5 stars416 ratings
Regular price: $15.47
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1. From Scratch

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By: Tembi Locke
Narrated by: Tembi Locke
Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
Release date: 04-30-19
4.5 out of 5 stars5,202 ratings
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1. Humble Pie

By: Gordon Ramsay
Narrated by: Gordon Ramsay
Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
Release date: 10-16-06
4.5 out of 5 stars1,480 ratings
Regular price: $18.87
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1. The Orchid Thief

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By: Susan Orlean
Narrated by: Jennifer Meyers
Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
Release date: 08-03-01
3.5 out of 5 stars572 ratings
Regular price: $17.98
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1. Eat a Peach

By: David Chang, Gabe Ulla
Narrated by: David Chang
Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
Release date: 09-08-20
4.5 out of 5 stars1,921 ratings
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1. Every Living Thing

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Release date: 12-01-00
5 out of 5 stars1,128 ratings
Regular price: $14.99
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1. Down and Out in Paradise

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By: Charles Leerhsen
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Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
Release date: 10-11-22
4 out of 5 stars340 ratings
Food: A Love Story Audiobook By Jim Gaffigan cover art

1. Food: A Love Story

By: Jim Gaffigan
Narrated by: Jim Gaffigan
Release date: 10-21-14
4.5 out of 5 stars4,056 ratings
Regular price: $15.75
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1. In the Middle Are the Horsemen

By: Tik Maynard
Narrated by: Tik Maynard
Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
Release date: 10-24-22
Regular price: $21.49
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1. Old-Fashioned on Purpose

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By: Jill Winger
Narrated by: Jill Winger, Andrew Eiden
Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
Release date: 09-26-23
5 out of 5 stars78 ratings
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1. Cooked

A Natural History of Transformation
Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
Release date: 04-23-13
4.5 out of 5 stars2,563 ratings
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By: Will Chesney, Joe Layden
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Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
Release date: 04-21-20
5 out of 5 stars2,263 ratings
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1. Speaking with Nature

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By: Sandra Ingerman, Llyn Roberts
Narrated by: Christa Lewis, Suzie Althens
Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
Release date: 01-08-19
4.5 out of 5 stars135 ratings
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1. The Man Who Listens to Horses

By: Monty Roberts
Narrated by: Ed Sala
Release date: 05-03-18
5 out of 5 stars247 ratings
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1. The Book Your Dog Wishes You Would Read

By: Louise Glazebrook
Narrated by: Louise Glazebrook
Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
Release date: 11-18-21
4.5 out of 5 stars62 ratings
Regular price: $15.98
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By: Erin French
Narrated by: Erin French
Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
Release date: 04-06-21
5 out of 5 stars1,310 ratings
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1. Raw Dog

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By: Jamie Loftus
Narrated by: Jamie Loftus
Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
Release date: 05-23-23
4.5 out of 5 stars180 ratings
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1. Teaming with Microbes

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By: Jeff Lowenfels, Wayne Lewis
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Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
5 out of 5 stars320 ratings
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1. The Complete Dr. Sebi Diet Cookbook

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By: Stephanie Henery
Narrated by: Jimmy Allen Fuller
Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
Release date: 06-22-20
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1. My Mother's Kitchen

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By: Peter Gethers
Narrated by: Peter Gethers
Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
Release date: 04-04-17
4.5 out of 5 stars20 ratings
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By: Courtney Carver
Narrated by: Courtney Carver
Release date: 03-03-20
4.5 out of 5 stars338 ratings
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1. The Power of Awareness

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By: Dan Schilling
Narrated by: Dan Schilling
Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
Release date: 06-01-21
4.5 out of 5 stars121 ratings
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1. Good Clean Fun

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By: Nick Offerman
Narrated by: Nick Offerman
Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
Release date: 10-18-16
4.5 out of 5 stars1,606 ratings
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1. Losing a Pet: A Book of Grief & Recovery

The Pathway to Finding Joy After Pet Loss When You Just Can’t Get Over Losing Your Soul Pet
By: Emily Newcombe
Narrated by: Hillary O'Keefe
Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
Release date: 04-11-24
5 out of 5 stars16 ratings
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1. Joyful

By: Ingrid Fetell Lee
Narrated by: Ingrid Fetell Lee
Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
Release date: 09-04-18
4.5 out of 5 stars701 ratings
Regular price: $21.83
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1. Folks, This Ain't Normal

A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
By: Joel Salatin
Narrated by: Joel Salatin
Release date: 10-10-11
5 out of 5 stars2,557 ratings